duro

GenX husband, father, thinker, doer.

Appreciates saunas, dogs, Bitcoin, woodland lakes, philosophy, psilocybin, hi-fi audio, freedom tech, learning new things, rediscovering old things, being real.

Counter-opinions welcomed. DYOR.

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duro@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

rubyhorse4@primal.net

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2024-09-11 18:37:22

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I originally read “twerking” and for a moment considered taking a break from caffeine for a bit as well.

2024-09-10 22:14:52

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The most beautiful thing about human be-ings is our agency, and optimism mobilizes agency in a way that affirms our Promethean legacy.
Doomerism is dysgenic, a vapid sigh that exhausts itself in the heat death of its own banality.

2024-09-10 17:53:44

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The foundation of OpSec is the realization that everyone loves bacon 🥓

2024-09-09 22:06:58

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I try rarely, and only when it’s brought up, but when I do, I simply get them to install a wallet and then I send them some sats and congratulate them on owning the future of money. It either starts them on a journey eventually or it doesn’t.

2024-09-09 18:56:11

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You think those are your thoughts that you’re thinking?

2024-09-09 18:33:55

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It’s printed in the Hasbro rule-set for the board game Monopoly under the section titled Bankruptcy: the last player left in the game wins.

2024-09-08 15:09:56

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Really great post. Your very last is especially fire.

2024-09-08 12:36:58

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C) professional sand-pit fighter

2024-09-08 01:03:34

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I know the people at your dinner party. The “conspiracy theory” brick wall challenges me too.

2024-09-08 00:44:55

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Anything specific that really made the record scratch?

2024-09-08 00:42:48

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Like it 👍

2024-09-07 23:05:01

It was 18 months before I finally orange-pilled someone.
It was 3 days to purple-pill someone.
And as part of the deal I dropped them some sats for their new lightning wallet, so it was two pills in one.
Or maybe a burnt sienna pill.

2024-09-07 23:05:01

2024-09-07 17:19:15

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Sadly, they didn’t do it to us. They facilitated us doing it to ourselves.

2024-09-07 13:39:01

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Dude that was great. Loved it. Feels like my balls grew a couple of pounds heavier just from vibing along. Live free brother.

2024-09-06 22:52:28

"I'm not upset that you lied to me. I'm upset that I can no longer put my trust in you."
- Freddy Kneetja

2024-09-06 16:49:53

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He’s implied: the platypus is Australian in origin, nostr points to technical competence and the bubonic plague captures all anti-civilizational forces in general

2024-09-06 16:28:19

4p > ^4He + 2e^+ + 2v + E
E + CO_2 > O_2 + H_2O + C_6H_12O_6
C_6H_12O_6 + 6O_2 > 6CO_2 + 6H_2O + E
I hope it’s never not amazing to me that this simple program running on loop has created the duck-billed platypus, the bubonic plaque and nostr.

2024-09-06 16:28:19

2024-09-06 01:25:16

The quality and tenor of our lives and our time together is driven by the nature of the problems that we are trying to solve. What happens when we inhabit a world full of fake problems?
#note1fsg…j776

2024-09-05 23:34:43

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Nominal definition: someone who believes that the interests of individual sovereign nation-states must be subordinated to the interests of a global order of expert problem-solvers in order to best address what they perceive as the existential issues facing humanity today.
Conspiratorial definition: the people who have the most to lose when the plebs realize that the entire system is bankrupt and running on fumes.

2024-09-05 23:02:20

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Grim

2024-09-05 22:57:31

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I unequivocally support this.

2024-09-05 22:03:45

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The point I was trying to make is maybe best understood in the last sentence. There is a managed reality presented in the MSM that, if you subscribe, becomes a default setting you assume everyone is running.

2024-09-05 20:28:10

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The way the American mainstream media handled Milei was one of the key topics that completely tore the mask off them for me (the others big ones being Bitcoin and the pandemic). I lived in Argentina for 8 years and my wife spent all of her life there until our son was born and we moved to the US. I first came across him in my Apple News feed, early in his campaign, where he was described as "trump-like, fascist, far-right extremist, crazy, unstable, talking to his dead dogs, wanting to legalize the sale of human organs and babies, etc." I asked my wife if she knew anything about him. She didn't, and we started watching Argentinean coverage of him, and a lot of his appearances on various podcasts, etc. We both came to like him quickly--he was passionate, articulate, smart, very consistent, very grounded in Austrian economics, and he never spoke down to his audience. We followed his entire campaign and were thrilled when he won. The craziest thing is, after the election, my wife's friends expressed their condolences to her about Milei's victory. From their CNN-informed world-view, their base assumption was that my wife would be upset.

2024-09-05 19:27:46

I like @npub1s05…eyhe. He looks at the world like an entrepreneur and asks how he can provide value to others by solving real problems. Unlike the totalitarian, who seeks the authority to define for others what their problems actually are.
#note1qm6…2f93

2024-09-05 01:34:50

I’m sympathetic to Parker’s argument to the extent that the more Elon loses the fight publicly, the more emboldened attacks on free speech are likely to become. This isn’t a trivial consideration.
What I don’t understand is his leap to shitting on nostr. I mean, I guess paying blue check subscription fees is a token form of protecting free speech… but surely building up and growing an decentralized and uncensorable communication protocol is pretty damn important.
#note1fay…g07m

2024-09-05 01:01:11

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That blue checkmark doing some work…

2024-09-04 19:49:07

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🤣

2024-09-04 19:45:19

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The sixfold path of satoshism

2024-09-04 19:34:42

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“Whatever it is is not trying really trying to fool you, it’s trying to instruct you…. It’s a set of instructions for how to keep you job. You’re allowed to disagree, it’ll set the boundaries of the disagreement, it’ll set the topics of the disagreement… and you’re given a choice. You can choose to understand whatever you want and you can choose to say whatever you want. But if you say what you understand to be true, you can know what the consequences are. You may lose your marriage, you may lose your job, you may lose your friends…. you’re signing up for whatever Thanksgiving dinner we have planned for you. We are talking to your uncle, we are talking to your spouse.” -Eric Weinstein

2024-09-04 19:12:49

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Yes. And the second most annoying bugs are the Japanese beatles that decimate my linden tree every year.

2024-09-04 18:31:58

Nostr seems too real to be real. It's like some sort of pirate utopia where everyone is mask off, ten toes down in the grass, sun on their face, doing what they can to build and share and exchange things that matter.

2024-09-04 18:31:58

2024-09-04 17:54:39

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"[We] have this very strange thing going on where democracy is the greatest threat to democracy. Now how can that be? It's two different concepts of democracy. One concept of democracy is the will of the people, you hold plebiscites, and even if you do it with an electoral college or political parties, the idea is that [you have government] by and for the people. The other idea of democracy is that democracy is about the institutions that sprang from democracy once upon a time and that those institutions have to be kept strong. Those are two completely different concepts that are overloaded to the same word. Under that circumstance, we have a paradox which is: how do we keep [...] the type A democracy from overturning the type B democracy? And that's the unsolved problem that they will not bring in front of the people."
- Eric Weinstein talking with Chris Williamson

2024-09-04 16:27:13

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Your note evoked a strong memory of the passing of my dog, Seven. She died of heart failure on my couch around 5 in the morning while I lay beside her, face to face. She held my gaze through her last breath. I felt deeply sad, but also intensely present, and her passing was peaceful. I can't imagine not being with her for this moment.
A couple of days earlier she had gone from being playful and strong to having no appetite and hardly moving. I brought her to the vet and when I showed them Seven, they rushed her into the back. They came out to tell me that she was dying, which was completely unexpected, and when I asked how long, they said any day. She had a defect in her heart that was leaking blood into the sac that surrounds it. The sac was filling up. They told me that they could drain it, and she would feel better, but that they couldn't fix it and that the sac would fill again. I told them to drain it and she was her old self again. We spent one last glorious day hiking and exploring some of her favorite woodland trails. Very grateful for this.

2024-09-03 22:45:16

I’m usually pretty good with words, but I think I need help finding one that describes the feeling you get when your 13 year old son looks at you and says, “dad, can I start working out with you?”
None of mine are big enough, or beautiful enough.

2024-09-03 21:32:13

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🍻

2024-09-03 20:56:59

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I started buying Bitcoin in 2017. It didn't DO anything.
I kept buying in 2018, 19, 20 and it still didn't DO anything.
Same in 21, 22 and 23... again, it didn't DO anything.
In 24, largely thanks to Bitcoin, I stepped away from my corporate life and I started to DO (different) things.

2024-09-03 16:58:10

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Do you have an undisclosed interest in the kilt industry?

2024-09-03 16:46:23

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If you can just throw enough computing power at it, you will discover that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is 42

2024-09-03 16:38:54

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Taking responsibility is the very essence of freedom. Sadly, few.

2024-09-02 20:01:19

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Small talk that lasts for more than a few minutes

2024-09-02 15:06:07

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51. My first computer was a Commodore 64 with a cassette drive. My first dial-up provider was a long-distance phone call away. My first month of internet use cost my dad $300 dollars in long distance charges, and was therefore my last month of internet usage for a while.

2024-09-02 15:06:07

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